Mihai Niculescu

Movies

Blutholz
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
6.9 on the Richter Scale
Bebeneciu
A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
A Royal Christmas
Grand Duke of Canterbury
A young working girl with a blue-collar background is surprised when her new fiancé announces he is actually a prince of a small sovereign country in Europe. After the couple quickly takes off to spend the holidays at his family’s sprawling, royal castle, she must work hard to win over her disapproving and unaccepting future mother-in-law—the Queen—and find out if love truly can conquer all.
Youth Without Youth
Valan
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
La voie de Laura
Second Assistant Director
With the birth of her son, Laura is installed in the upper valley of Pyrenees, the Valley of the Eagles, somewhere between France and Spain, ready to rebuild their lives.
A Place Among the Living
Assistant Art Director
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Corps et âmes
Assistant Director
Amen.
Civilian #1
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Les 7 vies du docteur Laux
Assistant Director
The Man of the Day
Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen
Magistrate (uncredited)
Made for cable, this erotic drama follows a modern young man on a virtual reality trip back to 17th-century England where men were men and women were readily available.
Vampire Journals
Walter
A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well.
Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play
Dr. Lazlo Tuttle
Dr Tuttle uses the Doppelganger to breach a mirror, letting Dragora, Dabble and Swanson into the people world. Dragora uses this opportunity to get revenge on Mary Margaret, by way of having her over for tea.
Magic in the Mirror
Dr. Lazlo Tuttle
A little girl's imaginary friends come to life when she goes through her great-grandmother's antique mirror, a la Alice, after she sees it glowing.
Leapin' Leprechauns
Doctor Voyznizc
A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.
Pepe and Fifi
The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.
Nobody's Children
M. Beziel
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
Mirror
Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime Minister. Focused around the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists.
Love and Warm Water
Angela (Liliana Pană) and Dorina (Magda Catone), working at the Match Factory, live in the home and dream of marriage and spouses to give them a decent living. But the illusions are shattered when the men encountered prove their lack of character: Titi (the boy whom Angela is in love with, appears at a time with a kid and is raped), a vendor, is pimp, Emil, an engineer, is a And Radu, an emigrant in Australia, is undistinguished by his Collie dog.
Luxury Hotel
In an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and the social stratification are the main focus.
Personal Issues
Communist activists have to let out steam due to increased pressure in their professional life.